A Phenomenological Approach to the Composing Process: Epistemology, Self-Concept, and Syntax.

Thompson, Chezia Brenda

Teaching English in the Two-Year College, v7 n2 p99-102 Win 1981

Acknowledges that individuals feel about and describe the world differently, and that composition teachers allow established authors more license with syntax than they extend to students. Suggests that teachers evaluate student writing with more sensitivity to those different perceptions, and recognize the diversity of the English language and syntax. (HTH)